Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Małgorzata |
| FAMILY NAME | Głowacka-Grajper |
| SIGNATURE | GŁOWACKA-GRAJPER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8992-8117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Un)Usable Past
The paper examines how local heritage practitioners in two Polish towns, Białystok and Łódź, recount the nineteenth-century history of Tsarist rule, with a particular focus on two interconnected aspects of life in the Russian empire: modernization and cultural diversity. Both cities experienced tremendous economic development during Russian rule and became multicultural local metropolises. The authors analyze how these facets are remembered, forg…
Towards agonistic memory within the national victimhood framework? Vernacular and state memory of Soviet repressions in Poland
This article explores whether constructing a narrative of a community of victims can foster an agonistic approach to intra-national conflicts over memory. Using the example of Poles who served in two distinct armies – one allied with Western forces and the other with the Red Army – the authors demonstrate how the agonistic mode of remembrance is employed in vernacular and state museums in Poland. Through an analysis of the vernacular Museum of Sy…
Neighbours of the empire
In the paper, we analyze the image of the Soviet Union and Russia presented by the Lithuanian and Polish states to the youngest generation. Our empirical data comes from textbooks for social sciences and recent history, beginning from the gaining independence of both countries after the First World War until the aggression on Ukraine in 2014. We focused on the ways of presenting to the pupils the politics, society, and culture of the Soviet and R…
Ethnography of Horse Racing Gamblers’ Lives. Constructing Biographical Narratives in the Process of Interviewing
In this paper, we analyze the narrative strategies employed by horse racing gamblers in the context of their interactions within interviews. The empirical base consisted of 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with long-term regular gamblers from Warsaw, Poland. First, we state our position in the context of interviews with people aware they may be assessed negatively regarding a very important part of their lives. Second, we discuss how the i…
A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman
In the article, the authors examine the different phases of feminisation of the horse racing field in Poland, starting from the early communist times up to the present. The empirical material for the article is comprised of 20 in-depth interviews with women riders whose careers spanned different decades and is supplemented by field observation and statistics. Following the nationalisation of horse racing in 1950, women were excluded due to the em…
Projektowanie pamięci narodu
An oasis of freedom’ in communist Poland
In this article the memory narrations of regular visitors to the Służewiec Racetrack in Warsaw are analysed. This, the only one long-term operating horse racetrack in communist Poland, was an enclave within public space, called by racegoers, who are predominantly elderly men, an ‘oasis of freedom’ – distant from the everyday reality and the rules of the official socialist ideology. The intricacies of the memory of regular racegoers are considered…
Memory in Post-communist Europe
This article is part of the special cluster titled Social practices of remembering and forgetting of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Controversies over social memory form an important aspect of reality in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. On the one hand, there are debates about coming to terms with the communist past and the Second World War that preceded it (because imp…
The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden
Book Review| October 01 2018 The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden Krzysztof Kowalski and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, ed., The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden, (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2016). 276 pp., illus. ISBN 978-83-233-4202-1. Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish R…
Memory in Post-communist Europe
This article is part of the special cluster titled Social practices of remembering and forgetting of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Controversies over social memory form an important aspect of reality in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. On the one hand, there are debates about coming to terms with the communist past and the Second World War that preceded it (because imp…
A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman
In the article, the authors examine the different phases of feminisation of the horse racing field in Poland, starting from the early communist times up to the present. The empirical material for the article is comprised of 20 in-depth interviews with women riders whose careers spanned different decades and is supplemented by field observation and statistics. Following the nationalisation of horse racing in 1950, women were excluded due to the em…
An oasis of freedom’ in communist Poland
In this article the memory narrations of regular visitors to the Służewiec Racetrack in Warsaw are analysed. This, the only one long-term operating horse racetrack in communist Poland, was an enclave within public space, called by racegoers, who are predominantly elderly men, an ‘oasis of freedom’ – distant from the everyday reality and the rules of the official socialist ideology. The intricacies of the memory of regular racegoers are considered…
Memory in Post-communist Europe
This article is part of the special cluster titled Social practices of remembering and forgetting of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Controversies over social memory form an important aspect of reality in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. On the one hand, there are debates about coming to terms with the communist past and the Second World War that preceded it (because imp…
The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden
Book Review| October 01 2018 The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden Krzysztof Kowalski and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, ed., The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden, (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2016). 276 pp., illus. ISBN 978-83-233-4202-1. Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper University of Warsaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish R…
Projektowanie pamięci narodu
A woman has a problem of the type that she is a woman
In the article, the authors examine the different phases of feminisation of the horse racing field in Poland, starting from the early communist times up to the present. The empirical material for the article is comprised of 20 in-depth interviews with women riders whose careers spanned different decades and is supplemented by field observation and statistics. Following the nationalisation of horse racing in 1950, women were excluded due to the em…
Ethnography of Horse Racing Gamblers’ Lives. Constructing Biographical Narratives in the Process of Interviewing
In this paper, we analyze the narrative strategies employed by horse racing gamblers in the context of their interactions within interviews. The empirical base consisted of 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with long-term regular gamblers from Warsaw, Poland. First, we state our position in the context of interviews with people aware they may be assessed negatively regarding a very important part of their lives. Second, we discuss how the i…
Neighbours of the empire
In the paper, we analyze the image of the Soviet Union and Russia presented by the Lithuanian and Polish states to the youngest generation. Our empirical data comes from textbooks for social sciences and recent history, beginning from the gaining independence of both countries after the First World War until the aggression on Ukraine in 2014. We focused on the ways of presenting to the pupils the politics, society, and culture of the Soviet and R…
(Un)Usable Past
The paper examines how local heritage practitioners in two Polish towns, Białystok and Łódź, recount the nineteenth-century history of Tsarist rule, with a particular focus on two interconnected aspects of life in the Russian empire: modernization and cultural diversity. Both cities experienced tremendous economic development during Russian rule and became multicultural local metropolises. The authors analyze how these facets are remembered, forg…
Towards agonistic memory within the national victimhood framework? Vernacular and state memory of Soviet repressions in Poland
This article explores whether constructing a narrative of a community of victims can foster an agonistic approach to intra-national conflicts over memory. Using the example of Poles who served in two distinct armies – one allied with Western forces and the other with the Red Army – the authors demonstrate how the agonistic mode of remembrance is employed in vernacular and state museums in Poland. Through an analysis of the vernacular Museum of Sy…
History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Communism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works)